new york Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/new-york/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png new york Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/new-york/ 32 32 US Postal Stamp Honors An Accomplished Deaf Educator https://deafniche.com/us-postal-stamp-honors-accomplished-deaf-educator/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 11:19:38 +0000 http://deafniche.com/?p=9593 The United States Postal Service announced the new commemoration stamps for 2017, honoring individuals who have done outstanding civil work. One of the honored is the Deaf educator Robert Panara. Panara was born hearing and at the age of 10 he fell ill with meningitis and became deaf. Panara actually considered this to be a […]

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]]> Did you know the first woman to swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, was deaf? https://deafniche.com/gertrudeederle/ Sat, 26 Mar 2016 02:43:56 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=9022 Ederle broke 10 world records in 1926 Gertrude Ederle was the daughter of German immigrants and she was deaf from childhood due to measles. This didn’t stop her from swimming competitively! When she was only twelve years old, she set the world record for the 880 meter freestyle! After that, she participated in many competitions […]

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